LST11. An LNER Clayton Steam Railcar with Trailer Car, Un-named and Un-numbered. In LNER green and cream livery. These are from brass kits by GP Models (Garth Patrick) and are fitted with Slaters wheels and have internal seating. The steam bogie of the railcar is powered by a miniature Mashima motor with a worm and wheel drive unit. The motor/drive unit was supplied as part of the kit and it is fine running forward but noisy in reverse (which seems to be common to other models built from this kit). The prototypes were produced by Clayton Wagons Ltd. of Lincoln starting in 1927 and the LNER ordered eleven of these steam railcars between 1927 and 1928, plus eight of the trailer cars. The railcars all had quite unusual names (such as ‘Chevy Chase’, and ‘Bang-Up’) , and due to unreliability had short lives with all being withdrawn by February 1937. Some of the railcars were converted for departmental use, and some of the trailer cars were sold to become summer houses. RESERVED.
